Are The Fortune 500 Afraid Of The Dark? Metrikus Is Back With Dark January To Get Companies To Go #LightsOut January 25, 2024 | Sponsored It definitely feels like that when you look up at the skyline of the City of London well after office hours. All these towering skyscrapers are lit up with absolutely no one in. And while the legend of the occasional graduate banker burning the midnight oil and napping in sleep pods may well be the [...]
Mandatory TCFD Reporting – Deadline Approaching January 24, 2024 | Sponsored TCFD reporting is a mandatory reporting requirement – UK investment management firms with over £5bn AUM must publish their first product-level TCFD report by 30 June 2024, while those with over £50bn AUM are already expected to produce quarterly reports. What must this report include? Scope 1, 2 & 3 greenhouse gas emissions; Carbon footprint [...]
Government ‘cannot currently’ tell if £22bn subsidy for biomass plants is genuinely green – watchdog January 24, 2024 The Drax plant in North Yorkshire is the country's primary user of biomass
Explainer-in-brief: The Doomsday Clock is the closest it’s ever been to midnight – but what does this mean? January 23, 2024 The Doomsday Clock time is the closest it has ever been to midnight, but what does this mean and who sets it?
Comeback kid: Embattled energy trust seeks to restore London listing after delayed results January 23, 2024 The Asian Energy Impact trust is seeking to restore its London listing after publishing delayed annual and interim results, following months of controversy around the trust. In April, the trust’s shares were suspended after an issue was identified with its 2022 annual results, leading to ‘material uncertainty’ over the fair value of some of its [...]
The ESG Future Forum January 23, 2024 | Sponsored The ESG Future Forum 2024 is an extraordinary event curated for leaders across business, professional, and financial services firms, who are committed to pioneering the future of ESG practice! Elevate your leadership at this peer to peer event dedicated to cultivating collaboration and action among visionary leaders unapologetically devoted to harmonising commercial success with meaningful [...]
Are you asking the right questions about your building’s energy usage? January 22, 2024 | Sponsored Businesses are finally asking the question – ‘how much energy are we using, and how can it be reduced?’. It seems the energy crisis, however you view it, did have one upside. I say ‘finally’ because I’ve been waiting a long time for this. Having spent 30 years in building services, selling energy saving control systems for [...]
MSCI under fire for ESG ratings ‘biases’ that could cost investors January 22, 2024 A Liberum analyst has hit out at MSCI over its ESG ratings, calling for investors to ignore sustainability ratings from the firm due to “biases” in its ratings methodology that could lose them money. In a Substack blog post this morning, investment strategist Joachim Klement cited a recent paper from Bocconi University that found investors [...]
How a ‘national icon’ rose up from a derelict car park January 22, 2024 How a £36m office building with Europe's largest living wall is making waves across the UK after reaching practical completion.
The activists are coming: Why London-listed firms are worrying about more than just takeovers January 22, 2024 Activist investors are gearing up for an offensive in London, and boardrooms across the City are scrambling to shore up their defences.